Michael Fassbender: so good at being bad

Wed, May 14

He's disarmingly pleasant but the 36-year-old German-born, Irish-raised actor - who's our FebruaryELLE Man - has built a reputation as Hollywood's resident baddie; his latest villainous turn, as a heartless slave owner in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, has earned Fassbender a raft of award nominations. So if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?

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Prometheus
Fassbender played a ruthless Android called David in Ridley Scott's 2012 sci-fi epic. Creepy. Oh-so creepy. We have to say though: he really can pull off any hair colour, even platinum blonde.